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Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock, Musician, The Flatlanders

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

No, they're not. Some are quite nice; if (or when)I ever find myself needing glasses I may buy some. And I wouldn't really call them "hipster", but that's just me.

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

I feel old and cranky and jaded. I was reading an interview with french gay porn star Francois Sagat, who was so uber hip about 15 minutes ago, about how he is so post-hip now and can't be bothered by all the gay lifestyles and his fashion friends either, which seemed like a good choice.

I like young hipsters when I meet them in the flesh and blood, usually... But I also like rather neutral young people who don't embody such obvious identities. Also is it just me or are teenage or 20yo hipsters MUCH more bearable than the 35yo model?

Still, this tired old vampire is looking forward to some new incarnation that sparkles and compels more than hipster, which is sucked bone dry. A friend and I made the circuit around Hamburg recently and had the same feeling, nothing new seems to be coming up.

Does that mugler man really want to live with that for the rest of his life? As you get older, and have seen it all, and then again 5 times over, you start to value unstudied looks and styles.

« Last Edit: April 10, 2012, 11:31:45 PM by mecch »

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

I like young hipsters when I meet them in the flesh and blood, usually... But I also like rather neutral young people who don't embody such obvious identities. Also is it just me or are teenage or 20yo hipsters MUCH more bearable than the 35yo model?

I feel old and cranky and jaded. I was reading an interview with french gay porn star Francois Sagat, who was so uber hip about 15 minutes ago, about how he is so post-hip now and can't be bothered by all the gay lifestyles and his fashion friends either, which seemed like a good choice.

I like young hipsters when I meet them in the flesh and blood, usually... But I also like rather neutral young people who don't embody such obvious identities. Also is it just me or are teenage or 20yo hipsters MUCH more bearable than the 35yo model?

Still, this tired old vampire is looking forward to some new incarnation that sparkles and compels more than hipster, which is sucked bone dry. A friend and I made the circuit around Hamburg recently and had the same feeling, nothing new seems to be coming up.

Does that mugler man really want to live with that for the rest of his life? As you get older, and have seen it all, and then again 5 times over, you start to value unstudied looks and styles.

No, they're not. Some are quite nice; if (or when)I ever find myself needing glasses I may buy some. And I wouldn't really call them "hipster", but that's just me.

Here in Austin, the hipsters seem to be gravitating to the browline glasses rather than the ray ban glasses. But browlines seem so much more like Mad Men than Hipster.

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"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock, Musician, The Flatlanders

Are you drinking? Between this reply and the post about faded vampires trolling for hipsters in Hamburg I'm kinda confused.

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Life goes on. I can honestly say that I have not lost any sleep over it.

What's perplexing to me is how people who have (probably) never seen hipsters in their lives can hijack a thread with tired ass clips in some attempt to prove they have some sort of street cred. You do know that those representations are satirical in nature

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

Personally I have daily contact with 2012 version hipsters everyday, from ages 18 - 50+, and have been more or less enmeshed in this culture for I dunno, 30 years... since I started art school I guess.

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

What's perplexing to me is how people who have (probably) never seen hipsters in their lives can hijack a thread with tired ass clips in some attempt to prove they have some sort of street cred. You do know that those representations are satirical in nature

I am so like totally ovah this thread. Yawn.

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Personally I have daily contact with 2012 version hipsters everyday, from ages 18 - 50+, and have been more or less enmeshed in this culture for I dunno, 30 years... since I started art school I guess.

Even on their best day the writers of Portlandia couldn't have produced a scene more foolish than this.

What's perplexing to me is how people who have (probably) never seen hipsters in their lives can hijack a thread with tired ass clips in some attempt to prove they have some sort of street cred. You do know that those representations are satirical in nature

What's perplexing to me is how someone I don't know can have so much bitterness inside of them focused on someone they've never even had a conversation with. You reply to my posts fairly commonly with some sort of snide commentary about how meaningless or arbitrary it is. As for "hijacking" this thread; you do realize it was a thread purely about miss P posting a picture, right?

What's perplexing to me is how someone I don't know can have so much bitterness inside of them focused on someone they've never even had a conversation with. You reply to my posts fairly commonly with some sort of snide commentary about how meaningless or arbitrary it is. As for "hijacking" this thread; you do realize it was a thread purely about miss P posting a picture, right?

What's perplexing to me is how someone I don't know can have so much bitterness inside of them focused on someone they've never even had a conversation with. You reply to my posts fairly commonly with some sort of snide commentary about how meaningless or arbitrary it is. As for "hijacking" this thread; you do realize it was a thread purely about miss P posting a picture, right?

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."